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Ideas for Jerry A. Fodor, Immanuel Kant and George Berkeley

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11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 1. Knowledge
20944 Knowledge is threefold: apprehension, reproduction by imagination, recognition by concepts [Kant, by Bowie]
21957 'Transcendental' concerns how we know, rather than what we know [Kant]
5617 Knowledge begins with intuitions, moves to concepts, and ends with ideas [Kant]
11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding
15627 Kant showed that the understanding (unlike reason) concerns what is finite and conditioned [Kant, by Hegel]
16898 Understanding essentially involves singular elements [Kant, by Burge]
5573 Reason is distinct from understanding, and is the faculty of rules or principles [Kant]
11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / a. Beliefs
5634 Opinion is subjectively and objectively insufficient; belief is subjective but not objective; knowledge is both [Kant]
11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / d. Cause of beliefs
12651 Some beliefs are only inferred when needed, like 'Shakespeare had not telephone' [Fodor]
11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / e. Belief holism
2502 How do you count beliefs? [Fodor]
11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 6. Knowing How
12628 Knowing that must come before knowing how [Fodor]
11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 5. Cogito Critique
5590 'I think therefore I am' is an identity, not an inference (as there is no major premise) [Kant]
11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 1. Perceptual Realism / a. Naïve realism
3958 Since our ideas vary when the real things are said to be unchanged, they cannot be true copies [Berkeley]
11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 1. Perceptual Realism / b. Direct realism
3943 If existence is perceived directly, by which sense; if indirectly, how is it inferred from direct perception? [Berkeley]
11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism
3931 Sensible objects are just sets of sensible qualities [Berkeley]
6722 Perception is existence for my table, but also possible perception, by me or a spirit [Berkeley]
5192 Berkeley did not deny material things; he merely said they must be defined through sensations [Berkeley, by Ayer]
5174 Berkeley needed a phenomenalist account of the self, as well as of material things [Ayer on Berkeley]
5601 There are possible inhabitants of the moon, but they are just possible experiences [Kant]
11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / a. Idealism
22003 We have no sensual experience of time and space, so they must be 'ideal' [Kant, by Pinkard]
21456 Objects having to be experiencable is not the same as full idealism [Gardner on Kant]
21446 If we disappeared, then all relations of objects, and time and space themselves, disappear too [Kant]
11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism
6909 In Kantian idealism, objects fit understanding, not vice versa [Kant, by Feuerbach]
16923 I admit there are bodies outside us [Kant]
6910 Kant's idealism is a limited idealism based on the viewpoint of empiricism [Kant, by Feuerbach]
21440 For Kant experience is either structured like reality, or generates reality's structure [Kant, by Gardner]
22006 The concepts that make judgeable experiences possible are created spontaneously [Kant, by Pinkard]
21441 'Transcendental' is not beyond experience, but a prerequisite of experience [Kant]
21442 'Transcendental' cognition concerns what can be known a priori of its mode [Kant]
5568 We cannot know things in themselves, but are confined to appearances [Kant]
5581 We have proved that bodies are appearances of the outer senses, not things in themselves [Kant]
21956 Everything we intuit is merely a representation, with no external existence (Transcendental Idealism) [Kant]
11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / c. Empirical idealism
6723 The 'esse' of objects is 'percipi', and they can only exist in minds [Berkeley]
6732 When I shut my eyes, the things I saw may still exist, but in another mind [Berkeley]
1103 'To be is to be perceived' is a simple confusion of experience with its objects [Russell on Berkeley]
6403 For Berkelely, reality is ideas and a community of minds, including God's [Berkeley, by Grayling]
3936 Time is measured by the succession of ideas in our minds [Berkeley]
3930 There is no such thing as 'material substance' [Berkeley]
3939 I conceive a tree in my mind, but I cannot prove that its existence can be conceived outside a mind [Berkeley]
3945 There is nothing in nature which needs the concept of matter to explain it [Berkeley]
3947 Perceptions are ideas, and ideas exist in the mind, so objects only exist in the mind [Berkeley]
2501 Berkeley seems to have mistakenly thought that chairs are the same as after-images [Fodor]
6724 The only substance is spirit, or that which perceives [Berkeley]
11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism
21971 Transcendental philosophy is the subject becoming the originator of unified reality [Kant]